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Here in the US, spring is on its way. For some, this brings thoughts of green grass, flowers, and plans for warmer weather activities outside. For car lovers, though, thoughts turn to ripping the winter covers off of their stored vehicles, oil changes, and fluid flushes in prep to start the spring and summer cruising and racing season. The warmer weather also means those looking to finish their project car or those building an upgrade lists can get back into their garage to start the work. If a new engin…
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Here in the US, spring is on its way. For some, this brings thoughts of green grass, flowers, and plans for warmer weather activities outside. For car lovers, though, thoughts turn to ripping the winter covers off of their stored vehicles, oil changes, and fluid flushes in prep to start the spring and summer cruising and racing season. The warmer weather also means those looking to finish their project car or those building an upgrade lists can get back into their garage to start the work. If a new engin…
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Hyundai Motor Group announced today that its two brands – Hyundai and Kia – will be offering more turbocharged engines and new transmissions in the United States.
The company also said that it plans to expand its offerings of diesel-powered vehicles but did not confirm in which markets.
Hyundai Motor Group also …
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There is no surprise that tougher fuel-economy and emissions regulations are putting a dent in high-performance cars with giant V8s. New reports suggest that Infiniti will soon be dropping V8 engines from its lineup in favor of turbo 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines. EVs and hybrids could also play a part in getting more pe…
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2013 Jaguar XF with Instinctive All Wheel Drive – Image: Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar seems to be doing all the right things as of late to grow the brand, which was all but dormant under Ford’s ownership. Despite major revisions to the XF in 2012, Jaguar has introduced two new engines and a new all-wheel-drive system to the XF product line. Even the flagship XJ gets changes, in the form of the same available AWD system (which Jaguar is calling “Instinctive All Wheel Drive) and a new supercharged V…
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Celebrating 50 years since its first appearance in a major production vehicle, the turbocharger is finally being realized for its true performance capacity. Associated at one time with sports cars and exotic performance vehicle machines for years, turbocharger technology had faced several challenges before achieving the automotive mainstream. The first turbo application in the Oldsmobile F-85 Jetfire involved to use of distilled water and methyl alcohol to accompany the operations of the Tur…
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In the past, four-cylinder engines have been mostly reserved for basic economy cars and lower-cost family sedans. More upscale, higher-priced vehicles usually came with a larger six-cylinder engine that wasn’t as fuel efficient but delivered more power and refinement. But that’s changing, as experienced in our latest compact SUV road tests.
To squeeze out better gas mileage, even luxury automakers have begun putting four-cylinder engines in their larger sedans and SUVs. By using turbochargers, they ar…
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Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez says that he is open to the idea of using smaller displacement engines only if it doesn’t pull away from the exclusivity of the supercar brand’s lineup.
Over the past 6 years, Aston Martin has reduced the emissions of its V8 and V12 engines by 25 percent but Bez says that there is stil…
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Adam Savage’s Rocketeer Pack Tested.com Today’s the 21st anniversary of The Rocketeer, and Tested has a treat for fans of the Disney flick (or fans of Mythbusters): Adam Savage displaying the engines of his in-progress Rocketeer jet pack. The whole pack isn’t up and running, he says in the video, because apparently there’s one guy out there who specializes in crafting parts of Rocketeer jetpacks (recession-proof). But after that: jetpack. [Tested] Here’s Adam Savage talking about it. The original trail…
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Some new reports are out surrounding Lexus’s mid-sized luxury SUV, the GX. And in those reports, word is that Lexus is considering a completely new platform for the next-generation GX, which means the Japanese luxury brand may move the GX from a body-on-frame platform to a unibody structure.
“There is a potential that at some point, when we replace the GX, we can have a car-based SUV,” said Lexus US’s vice president and general manager Mark Templin. “We were so successful with the GX, nobody w…
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